Chapter 7

Latvia nervously ruffles her wings while Terrador talks to Spyro in private, "I hate to tell you this, but Cyril, is dead."

Spyro shakes his head, "No, no I don't believe you."

"It's true, I'm sorry." Terrador hangs his head sadly as Spyro stays in denial. The little purple dragon still doesn't believe him for a few minutes until he moves onto the second stage of loss, anger.

"Who did this! I'll rip them apart! Tell me!" Terrador motions towards Latvia and holds Spyro back as he tries to charge at her.

"Spyro, we still don't know if it really is her who did it, we need more evidence."

"What do you know so far?" Asks Spyro, still a little angry.

"Well, she was alone for quite a while, and she's still a stranger." Latvia slams her right paw on the ground and tells them to hurry up with the interrogation. Volteer glares at her and growls so fiercely that she can't help but shrink back and shut up.

"Well? Shouldn't we go check her room?" Wonders Spyro.

"What for?"

"She could have something in there that would prove her guilty, duh!" Spyro rolls his eyes and chuckles. Terrador turns to the hallway and motions for Volteer to follow him. Latvia waits until the guardians have left before standing up and moving over to Spyro, who welcomes her harshly, "All I'm going to say is, did you fucking do it?"

"I've told you all multiple times already, it wasn't me!"

"I wish I could believe you." Spyro turns away and sighs.

"And why not? Do you really not trust me enough? Am I really that suspicious?" Then Latvia does something that makes Cynder growl. She places her wing on Spyro's back and whispers something into his ear. Whatever she said, must've been encouraging, because Spyro's face suddenly lights up. Cynder's jealousy gets the best of her and she finds herself standing up and walking in their direction.

"Excuse me, what are you two talking about?"

"Oh nothing, I was just telling Spyro something to cheer him up." Explains Latvia.

"Fine, he looks happy enough, now, will you mind letting me speak to him?" Latvia nods, "Alone?"

"Oh! Sure, sure, I'll just be, heh, over there." She points to the spot where she was sitting before and quickly disappears from Cynder's sight.

"What is it?" Asks Spyro, studying her face.

"Nothing, no nothing's bothering me, I'm definitely not disturbed by how you and Latvia are getting a little to close." Spyro lifts an eye ridge and cocks his head to the left. At first he doesn't get it, but eventually he catches on and bursts out laughing.

"You're jealous, aren't you?"

"No! Why would I be? That's preposterous." Then Cynder's cheeks start to glow red.

"Wow, did you find a thesaurus or something? I've never heard you use a word that large before."

Cynder smiles and shakes her head, "I don't really know where that came from. Sorry."

"It's ok, I like it when you use long words, it reminds me of something." Spyro grins slyly and waits for Cynder to get his little suggestive joke. She laughs and the red disappears from her cheeks. Latvia watches from her spot and frowns, this isn't how her plan was supposed to go. She never counted on Cyril dying. This only complicates things.

Terrador is the first to enter Latvia's room. He looks around and doesn't see a single suspicious thing. In fact, the whole place is even cleaner then it was before she moved in. Volteer walks around and laughs, "Wow! I've never seen anything so clean before! This place is immaculate!"

"Yes, she did a good job."

"We need her to clean the rest of the temple!" Volteer stops walking in circles and looks at Terrador, "Right? Wouldn't that be great!?" Terrador doesn't say anything, he's to busy thinking. Latvia's bed is perfectly placed in the right order, the red pillows lined up from largest to smallest. All the walls are a bright yellow, the colour that they are supposed to be. Latvia had been up all night, dusting all of the furniture with her tail. The place glows with tidiness and hard work.

"There isn't any sign that she did anything bad, let's go back." Orders Terrador. The guardians walk out of the spotless room and head back to the central hall where they find Cynder and Spyro lying next to each other and Latvia watching them, "Good news Latvia, we couldn't find anything wrong with your room." She stands up and laughs victoriously.

"I told you! I didn't do it! Now you have to believe me!"

"Yes, but the killer is still in here somewhere." Says Volteer. Spyro stands up and asks him how he knows that the murderer hasn't fled, "I don't, I'm just guessing. Why would they run if they could kill Cyril?" Cynder crawls towards Latvia and stops right next to her. The white dragon looks down at her and smirks.

"I still don't trust you." Growls Cynder.

"And you have full reason not to." Latvia points her nose in the air and tries to seem proud of herself but Cyder can see the hints of fear in her eyes.

"The killer assassinated him in his sleep. I think you and Volteer need to hide somewhere for a while." Says Spyro.

"Wouldn't that be cowardly?" Asks Terrador. Spyro shakes his head and tells the two remaining guardians to go. Through all of this, Sparx just stays quiet and watches from the sidelines. There is a certain omniscient glow to his face, like he's up to something really bad. After everyone has left the room, the guardians to a secret hiding place in the back of the temple, and Spyro with Cynder and Latvia to his room, Sparx comes out of the dark. His face has grown old and deprived of light. His eyes are now a eeriegreen and have no pupils what-so-ever. Sparx starts to chuckle maniacally at the stupidity of the dragons, they didn't even think for a second that it would be him.

"Soon my plan will be complete! No one can stop me!!" The voice comes from Sparx's mouth, but it isn't his. The voice is that of something dark, and utterly evil. He zips down the long hallway that leads towards the hiding guardians, laughing all the way like he had been possessed by a demon straight from hell itself. Spyro lies in front of the bedroom door, confident that if anything were to attack, he'd be able to fend them off. Meanwhile, Cynder and Latvia sit on opposite sides of the room. The dark dragoness glares at Latvia with a hatred she only ever showed to her enemies.

"Really, why do you hate me so much?" Asks Latvia.

"I-I don't really know. In fact, now that you ask me, I don't have any reason to despise you. Yet, something inside me makes me want to kill you."

"Well that's a wonderful thought." Both of them laugh and move closer.

"I guess I'm a bit jealous, I've seen the way Spyro looks at you, and you to him."

Latvia chuckles, "Don't worry, I don't care about Spyro."

"Then why are you so happy to be near him all of the time? And what did you say to him back there?" Cynder moves closer and so does Latvia.

"I didn't say anything important, just a random couple of words to make him feel better." They move even closer.

"So why are you so happy to see him?" They are so close now, that Cynder begins to feel uncomfortable.

"Because you are always there next to him." Latvia's eyelids flutter and her face glows red.

"I don't understand." Cynder starts to back away, scared of what she might be implying.

Latvia chuckles softly, "Cynder...I love you."

Author's note:

Now I bet some of you are probably going, "WTF!!??" And this is most likely the best response to what just happened. The next chapter might take a while because I have to think of what she'll do next. Any help would be appreciated. You know, what do you want Cynder to say? Just tell me in a review or a PM and I'll consider it.